Entertainment Industry Leader Joins USA Video
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NIANTIC, CT, May 27 (MARKET WIRE) --
USA Video Interactive Corporation (OTCBB: USVO) (TSX-V: US) (BERLIN: USF)
(FRANKFURT: USF) today announced the appointment of Mr. Von Johnson to
the Company's Advisory Board. Johnson, an entertainment industry veteran
and multi-discipline expert who has worked with some of the industry's
premier companies and organizations, has joined USA Video to advise and
position the company as the leading industry provider of digital content
protection technologies. Johnson will work with the USA Video management
team to market the Company's proprietary anti-piracy technologies,
MediaEscort and SmartMarks, and provide business models and additional
markets for their use via digital watermarking and fingerprinting. Mr.
Johnson is the CEO and President of Von Johnson & Associates, Inc.
(www.vjaconsulting.com), a California corporation based near Hollywood
that offers boutique technology consultation services to the media and
entertainment industries. USA Video management will benefit from access
to the Von Johnson & Associates (VJA) team which includes Brian Finegold,
James Hubbert, Phil Lelyveld, Charles "Tad" Marburg, Patrick Murphy,
Javier Ponton, Allan Schollnick, and Rochelle Winters. USA Video's
Advisory Board will seek to outline strategies to manage and monetize
content assets through digital identification and authentication methods.
For more than a year, USA Video has been providing digital watermarking
services to the Hollywood film studio of one of the world's leading media
content companies, and is poised to expand its services and client base to
the education and government sectors.
"The entertainment industry is seeking to implement a solid technology
that ensures the protection and identity of content," said Johnson. "USA
Video's technology is proven, robust and affordable. The technology will
benefit not only the entertainment industry but any content owner
choosing to protect their assets and track down the pirates who cost
these industries an estimated $18 Billion a year."
"We believe that programs focused on enforcement rather than prevention
offer great opportunities to engage the full spectrum of digital
distribution while securing content," said Edwin Molina, USA Video
President and CEO. "We're incredibly pleased and fortunate to have Von
join our team and provide us with the advice and expertise that we need at
this moment to bring our company to the next step -- to professionally
serve the entertainment and other viable content industries with
solution-rich technology as we expand our operations and markets."
For All Press Inquires: Edwin Molina (860) 739 - 8030; extension 4
About Von Johnson: Von Johnson is Founder and CEO of Von Johnson and
Associates (www.vjaconsulting.com), and has over twenty-five years'
experience in the electronic distribution, global post production,
technical services, project management, systems development and
implementation, and business and systems integration disciplines within
the entertainment and related industries. Mr. Johnson has held senior
management positions at Walt Disney Company, Universal Television
Distribution, Turner Broadcasting, ITC Entertainment and DIVA Systems (a
video-on-demand technology pioneer in Menlo Park, CA). Mr. Johnson is also
Founder of White Ash Broadcasting, Inc., licensee for central California's
NPR affiliate, KVPR-FM Valley Public Radio. A Member of the Society of
Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), Mr. Johnson is
co-inventor of "Method and Apparatus for Transmission of Full Frequency
Digital Audio" (U.S. Patent # 5,544,228). Mr. Johnson is a native of
Southern California and holds a Bachelor Degree in Mass Communications
from California State University, Fresno; and an MBA from Woodbury
University in Los Angeles, California, where he is an adjunct professor.
Mr. Johnson also lectures at the UCLA Extension program on the subject of
change and disruption in the entertainment industry.
About MediaEscort(TM): MediaEscort(TM) is an industry first, IP-centric,
real-time online watermarking product, with its own administrative
infrastructure fully integrated into customer's video servers. It will
automatically and seamlessly embed SmartMarks -- imperceptible forensic
information in every frame of video content -- during Internet delivery,
providing the proof courts need to protect intellectual property rights,
indicting and convicting the individuals who steal the original material.
Using MediaEscort, copyright holders are able to protect their content
without restricting the fair uses of legitimate customers. MediaEscort's
SmartMarks work across all distribution and presentation channels and
technologies. It seamlessly provides an entire system for piracy
protection without frustrating consumers, who will continue to have the
freedom to enjoy content in their own way. In addition, MediaEscort has
the ability to support all major codecs in the industry, while preserving
the SmartMarks, and the process is fully compatible with DRM.
About USVO: USA Video Interactive Corporation (USVO) designs and markets
technology for delivery of digital media. USVO developed its
MediaEscort(TM), MediaSentinel(TM) and SmartMark(TM) digital watermarking
products and technologies to provide a robust means for producers and
distributors to invisibly protect their content. USA Video Technology
Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of USVO, holds the pioneering patent for
store-and-forward video, filed in 1990 and issued by the United States
Patent and Trademark Office on July 14, 1992; it has been cited by at
least 165 other patents. USVO holds similar patents in Germany, Canada,
England, France, Spain, Italy, and Japan. For more information, visit
www.usvo.com.
USA Video Interactive Corporate Headquarters Office: 8 West Main Street,
Niantic, Connecticut, 06357 Telephone (860) 739 - 8030 Facsimile (860)
739 - 8070; Canada Office: 507 - 837 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC
V6C 3N6. Trading symbol on the OTCBB: USVO; Trading symbol on the TSX
Venture Exchange: US; Trading symbol on the Berlin and Frankfurt Stock
Exchanges: USF. CUSIP 902924208. For more information contact (860) 739 -
8030 or contact@usvo.com.
The press release may contain forward-looking statements. Actual results
may differ materially from those projected in any forward-looking
statements. Investors are cautioned that such forward-looking statements
involve risk and uncertainties, which may cause actual results to differ
from those described. MediaEscort, MediaSentinel and SmartMark are
trademarks of USA Video Interactive Corp. The names of actual companies
and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective
owners.
The TSX Venture Exchange has not reviewed and does not accept
responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
Contact:
Edwin Molina
(860) 739 - 8030; extension 4
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